Leo Frank

“Justice delayed is justice denied”, but it might not be true in the case of Leo Frank.

You have to rewind back your watches not for seconds or hours or days but almost a century to find a cold case which had been a table talk for years and focus of attention even today, because the documentary revisiting the story of Leo Frank is premiering today.

Mary Phagan, a white child laborer, was found raped and dead in the basement of National Pencil Company in 1913 in Atlanta. The police focused on Leo frank, the victim’s boss who had come from north recently. The case was hotly debated in the national press and had been a topic of evening talks for many years. The murder trial of Leo Frank had become a much debated issue due to involvement of two different races. Leo was a black Jewish guy and the only witness against him was a white sweeper, Jim Conley, to which state portrayed as their star witness. Leo frank was found guilty and sentenced to death. In 1915, The Georgia Governor John Slaton commuted his sentence to life in prison on the conclusion that Frank was not fairly trialed. The New York Times went beyond its journalistic obligations to save Frank.

But the story goes on; Leo was abducted by a band of 25 people from the state penitentiary who drove him to the vicinity of Phagan’s childhood home, where they reportedly put a noose against his neck and hanged him with a tree.

The documentary is filmed on the location in Atlanta, may be a re-visit of the incident could save us from the stereotype racial prejudice.